Yoga and Psychoanalysis: Perspectives on the Psychology of Regression

This book discusses the relevance of tracing back the course of individual development noted in psychoanalysis (regression) and in Patañjali's Yoga (prati-prasava).

Although Freud found the diagnostic benefits in tracing the history of the patients' early childhood experiences, he also recognized the influences of the history of civilization and evolution. He also viewed the regression to earlier history in a negative light. Ernst Kris, on the other hand, saw some benefits of regression. The...